Saint Martyrs of the Damned

Saint Martyrs of the Damned
FrenchSaints-Martyrs-des-Damnés
Directed byRobin Aubert
Written byRobin Aubert
Produced byLuc Vandal
Roger Frappier
StarringFrançois Chénier
Patrice Robitaille
Isabelle Blais
CinematographySteve Asselin
Edited byMichel Arcand
Music byYves Desrosiers
Production
company
Max Films
Distributed byChristal Films
Release date
  • September 10, 2005 (2005-09-10) (TIFF)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Saint Martyrs of the Damned (French: Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robin Aubert and released in 2005.[1] The film stars François Chénier as Flavien Juste, a tabloid reporter who writes about strange paranormal phenomena; when he is sent to the small Quebec town of Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés to investigate a series of strange disappearances, his photographer colleague Armand (Patrice Robitaille) disappears as well, but he finds the townspeople actively impeding his efforts to locate his friend.[2]

The cast also includes Isabelle Blais, Guy Vaillancourt, Monique Mercure, Monique Miller, Sylvie Boucher, Pierre Collin, Michel Forget, Carl Hennebert-Faulkner, Germain Houde, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, André Lacoste, Mathilde Lavigne, Hubert Loiselle, Alexis Martin, Alec Poirier, David Savard and Luc Senay.

The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005,[3] before going into commercial release in October.[1]

  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés – Film de Robin Aubert". Films du Québec, June 19, 2009.
  2. ^ Lorrayne Anthony, "Saint Martyrs of the Damned: Director takes eerie look at small towns". Welland Tribune, October 12, 2005.
  3. ^ Gayle MacDonald, "Toronto film fest rolls out 2005's Cancon". The Globe and Mail, August 3, 2005.